Bodie: "The Mines are Looking Well..." - Softcover

Piatt, Michael H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972520007 ISBN 13: 9780972520003

Publisher: North Bay Books, 2003

Synopsis

Bodie: "The Mines Are Looking Well..." is a comprehensive history of a ghost town famous among readers of nineteenth century Americana and tourists to California's Eastern Sierra region. More than a decade in the making, this 288-page work brings together every source available to contemporary researchers to create as full a picture as possible of Bodie - from the arrival of W. S. Bodey himself in 1859 to the departure of its last residents in the 1950s. Author Michael Piatt has also gathered 130 photographs, most never before published, which bring the town's stories to life. The combination of careful writing and an extensive photo program make this work appealing to serious historians, general readers and tourists. Bodie: "The Mines Are Looking Well..." is unique among published accounts of Bodie. In addition to covering a longer time span than its predecessors and employing a wider range of sources, it is also based on the story of the town's mining industry. By following this thread through a period of nearly a century, the reader encounters the people, events, booms and busts, tragedies, technologies and bonanzas, that have made Bodie the archetype of an era.

Edition details

• Publisher: North Bay Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0972520007
• ISBN 13: 9780972520003
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288